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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5111398 | Processing natural language text using autonomous punctuational structure A technique for processing natural language text uses a data structure that includes structure data in the text data. The structure data indicates an autonomous punctuational structure of the text, a punctuational structure that is independent of the lexi... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5109509 | System for processing natural language including identifying grammatical rule and semantic concept of an undefined word A natural language including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc., is suitably processed when an undefined word which is not registered in a dictionary appears in an input character train. When the undefined word appears, a semantic analysis processor decides ... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5101349 | Natural language processing system A natural language arrangement includes stored grammatical rules each having a phrase structure part representing grammatical functions, a semantic part representing the manner of propagation from a superordinate category to a subordinate category, a cond... | 03/31/1992 |
| 5099425 | Method and apparatus for analyzing the semantics and syntax of a sentence or a phrase Meanings of words, phrases, and a sentence are expressed in items. Items, which have equal contents, of a plurality of semantic structures are represented by a common item during the expressing of the meanings. Items, which have different contents, of the... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5099426 | Method for use of morphological information to cross reference keywords used for information retrieval A data processing method is disclosed for storing and retrieving text. The storage part of the method includes the steps of compiling a vocabulary list of words occurring in the text and augmenting the vocabulary list with lemmas of the words in the text,... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5095432 | Data processing system implemented process and compiling technique for performing context-free parsing algorithm based on register vector grammar A context-free parsing algorithm employing register vector grammars provides fast parsing of natural languages. A compiler for register vector grammars accepts input grammars as standard phase structure rules and generates strongly equivalent grammars in ... | 03/10/1992 |
| 5088038 | Machine translation system and method of machine translation A machine translation system capable of obtaining a consistent translation for an entire document by taking context into account in translating each word or sentence. In this system, document information necessary to remove uncertainty in the translation ... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5088039 | System for translating adverb phrases placed between two commas through a converter using tree-structured conversion rules A method of translating a sentence including an adverb phrase put between two commas by using a translating apparatus which includes a dictionary look up and morpheme analyzer for looking up each word constituting an input sentence of a source language in... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5083268 | System and method for parsing natural language by unifying lexical features of words A method for parsing for natural languages includes a grammar and a lexicon. A knowledge base may be used to define elements in the lexicon. A processor receives single words input by a user and adds them to a sentence under construction. Valid next words... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5077668 | Method and apparatus for producing an abstract of a document A method and an apparatus for producing an abstract of a document capable of producing concise abstract with correct meaning precisely indicative of the content of the document automatically. The method includes the steps of: listing hint words which are ... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5068789 | Method and means for grammatically processing a natural language sentence A computer method of parsing a sentence into sentence parts to be described with functional indications, by means of lexicalized word units. The method includes determining, for each word unit and for each constituent, the functional word category within ... | 11/26/1991 |
| 5060155 | Method and system for the representation of multiple analyses in dependency grammar and parser for generating such representation Method for unambiguously coding multiple parsing analyses of a natural language word sequence in dependency grammar in which dependencies are defined between pairs of words, each pair consisting of a superordinate word or governor and a thereto related wo... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5056021 | Method and apparatus for abstracting concepts from natural language A method and apparatus for abstracting meanings from natural language words. Each word is analyzed for its semantic content by mapping into its category of meanings within each of four levels of abstraction. The preferred embodiment uses Roget's Thesaurus... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5029085 | Conversational-type natural language analysis apparatus A conversational-type of language analysis apparatus includes a sentence input unit inputting a sentence, a dictionary unit and a grammar storage unit. The apparatus also includes an all-relationship detection unit dividing into the syntactical units the ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5029084 | Japanese language sentence dividing method and apparatus A Japanese language sentence containing a word not registered in an electronic dictionary is divided by following a series of predetermined rules. When more than one division of such a sentence is possible, an evaluation is made in order to determine the ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4994967 | Information retrieval system with means for analyzing undefined words in a natural language inquiry An information retrieval system is adapted to carry out information retrieval by entering an inquiry sentence in natural language, executing semantic analysis of the natural language inquiry sentence by a semantic analysis unit, and producing a retrieval ... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4994966 | System and method for natural language parsing by initiating processing prior to entry of complete sentences A system and method for parsing natural language is provided. The system comprises a plurality of computer program code modules which address a plurality of predetermined lookup tables. Strings of characters, such as words, assigned one or more syntactica... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4992939 | Method of producing narrative analytical report Method of producing a narrative analytical report. The system analyzes information which has been input to a database and, using predetermined phrases intermingled with extracts from the database, produces a narrative analytical report which describes the... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4991094 | Method for language-independent text tokenization using a character categorization A computer method is disclosed to isolate linguistically salient strings ("words") from a natural language text stream. The process is applicable to a variety of computer hardware, to any character encoding scheme, and to the idiosyncrasies of most natura... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4989145 | Syntax analysis and language processing system A system for analyzing syntax in a language processing system includes a memory which stores preselected indentation rules associated with a source code level language. A lexical analyzer reads a sequence of input symbols from the source code, and divides... | 01/29/1991 |
| 4984178 | Chart parser for stochastic unification grammar A chart parser is disclosed which incorporates rule and observation probabilities with stochastic unification grammars. The parser operates frame synchronously to provide top-down hypotheses and to incorporate observation probabilities as they become avai... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4942526 | Method and system for generating lexicon of cooccurrence relations in natural language A method and an apparatus for generating/maintaining automatically or interactively a lexicon for storing information of cooccurrence relations utilized for determining whether or not a sequence of words in a given sentence described in a natural language... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4931936 | Language translation system with means to distinguish between phrases and sentence and number discrminating means A machine translation apparatus is disclosed which includes a number discriminator which distinguishes whether or not the first morpheme to appear in the sentence separated by a morpheme analyzer is a number, and a memory control which, when the number di... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4916614 | Sentence translator using a thesaurus and a concept-organized co- occurrence dictionary to select from a plurality of equivalent target words In a system of performing automatic translation from natural language into another natural language based on dependence relation among concepts, a thesaurus representing implication among concepts and a co-occurrence dictionary storing co-occurrence relat... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4864503 | Method of using a created international language as an intermediate pathway in translation between two national languages A method of using a created international language as an intermediate pathway in translation between two national languages, wherein the first language is translated into the created international language, the latter serving as a bridge, which is then tr... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4829580 | Text analysis system with letter sequence recognition and speech stress assignment arrangement In text-to-speech generating arrangements, text is analyzed to determine the language source of words therein by successively selecting letter sequences of each word in the text. At least one signal representative of the probability that the text word cor... | 05/09/1989 |
| 4816995 | Method for determining whether a series of end symbols can be generated by a context-free grammar, a multimodular device for the implementation of the method, and a translation machine comprising such multimodular device A method and a device for determining the permissibility of a series of a1. . . an end symbols as being derivable by means of a set of production rules on the basis of a context-free grammar G are described. The derivation takes place by assigning dotted ... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4805100 | Language processing method and apparatus When a Japanese or Korean bunsetsu-phrase lattice, that is, a set of linguistic units called bunsetsu-phrases each element of which having various starting and ending positions, and numerical values representing the reliability of each bunsetsu-phrase are... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4791587 | System for translation of sentences from one language to another A machine translation system for translating a sentence of a first language to a sentence of a second language. The system has a dictionary, a display, an input unit, a selection data memory and a combination data memory. The translation possibilities for... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4787038 | Machine translation system In a machine translation system, a translated-sentence possibility corresponding to an input original sentence is obtained by a translation processing section with reference to a dictionary, and is displayed to be divided by a division display control sec... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4777600 | Phonetic data-to-kanji character converter with a syntax analyzer to alter priority order of displayed kanji homonyms An input processing system inputs character string data including kanji characters and corresponding to phonetic data by entering phonetic data. An input device sequentially inputs phonetic data and sentence end data. A conversion section includes a conve... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4750122 | Method for segmenting a text into words A method of segmenting a text into words in which a dictionary search is made while using a character string in the text as a search key, and it is checked whether a word retrieved from the dictionary can be grammatically connected to another word adjacen... | 06/07/1988 |
| 4703425 | Language processing dictionary for bidirectionally retrieving morphemic and semantic expressions Morphemic, conceptional or semantic, and syntaxic dictionaries (21-23) keep morphemic, conceptional, and syntaxic items, respectively. Each morphemic item comprises a morphemic description and a first pointer pointing to a set of syntaxic items correspond... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4635199 | Pivot-type machine translating system comprising a pragmatic table for checking semantic structures, a pivot representation, and a result of translation In a machine translating system wherein word units of a source language are translated to word units of a target language through pivot words of a pivot language, a pragmatic table keeps the pivot words as dominant and dependant pairs together with a rela... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4456973 | Automatic text grade level analyzer for a text processing system A system for proofreading a text document and automatically detecting and replacing text words in the document which exceed a predetermined understandability level for the documents intended audience. Text words and synonyms are stored in a dictionary whi... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4420817 | Word endings inflection means for use with electronic translation device A control circuit of the present invention comprises a first memory for storing entry words, a second memory for storing a certain number of rule patterns according to which the endings of the entry words may be inflected, and an inflection control device... | 12/13/1983 |
